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I would like to know, why they DO NOT UPDATE DRIVERS for the AMD RADEON R7 M260 card for WINDOWS 8.1 64 bits??, the latest driver is from 2017 and ONLY UPDATE for Windows 10 ??? You have FORGOTTEN us..please update to W8.1 !!!

Worth mentioning the 2020 drivers apparently will not install via the installer on Windows 8.1. It takes jumping through some hoops. There are several threads about how to do this in this forum if the OP searches. Unfortunately AMD chose to not support a supported operating system and is currently still releasing drivers for an OS (Windows 7) that is not supported. Go figure...... However I am all for the support. It is the lack of it that bugs me.

“Windows 8.1 falls under the same lifecycle policy as Windows 8, and will reach end of Mainstream Support on January 9, 2018, and end of Extended Support on January 10, 2023. With the General Availability of Windows 8.1, customers on Windows 8 have 2 years, until January 12, 2016, to move to Windows 8.1 in order to remain supported.”

Ah Windows 8.1. Right? Wrong. There is a flaw here as well. Microsoft no longer supports ‘Windows 8.1’. Support for it ended in August 2015 and that in itself was an extension after it was originally meant toend in May 2015.

So when Microsoft stopped support for Windows 8 and 8.1,so did AMD,simple.

Windows 8.1 is not widely used at all, the gaming community has largely moved to windows 10 x64 long ago

Windows 10 x64 is still a mainstream supported OS, as long as people keep updating it. Microsoft has fixed the update problems, no more reboot cycles like a clean install. Now it more like update Tuesday with a reboot for core OS fixes.